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Mam i? i949- R s. BARKER ET M CARTRIDGE CLIP LOADER Filed May l, 1947Invennra Patented Mar. l, 1949 :UNITD STATES F E C CARTRIDGE CLIP LOADERApplication v:May 1, 1947,Serial N0. 745,212

(Granted under the act of vMarch 3, 1883, as amended April 30, 1928; 370G. 757) 3 Claims.

The invention described herein may be manufactured and used by or forthe Government for governmental purposes without the payment to us ofany royalty thereon.

This invention relates to a device for loading cartridges into thejmagazine of firearm of the type having a removable magazine, such as theU. S. Army carbine, caliber 30, M1, and has for its primary object theprovision of cartridge clip which will be capable of transferring a fullmagazine load of cartridges directly into the magazine with one rapidmotion.

'Another'object-is to'provide a device of this character which'can beused to load the empty magazine in the rifle without removing themagazine,l and can also be used to load the magazine when it is removedfromthe riiie.

Another object 'is to provide'a compact cartridge clip which'can betelescoped into a minimum length for shipping and packaging.

We achieve the above objects by means of a clip generally similar to aknown type of clip for holding a number of cartridges aligned forfeeding into a riiie magazine, said clip being arranged to slidably holdthe cartridges by flanges which engage with the circumferential grooveor ange and the base of each cartridge. Our clip is distinguished byslidable enlarged means at one end thereof for feeding the cartridgedirectly from the clip into the removed magazine of an automatic firearmsuch as the M1 carbine and also has engaging means at the other end ofthe clip for engaging a portion of the firearm so that cartridges may befed directly into the magazine when it is positioned in the weapon,whereby the weapon may be loaded directly from the clip without removingthe empty magazine.

The invention is illustrated in preferred form in the accompanyingdrawings but without limitation to the particular detail shown except asdefined by the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of our invention as used for loading amagazine when removed from the firearm,

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the device shown in Figure 1,

Figure 3 is a front elevation of our invention with the slidablemagazine-engage portion retracted on the clip,

Figure 4 is a cross section taken on line 4 4 of Figure 1,

Figure 5 is a cross section taken from line 5-5 of Figure 1,

2 Figure 6 shows a section taken on line 6.--6 of Figure 3,

Figure 7 shows a section taken on line 1v1 of Figure 3,Y

Figure 8 is a frontv elevationof our inventionA as used for loading amagazine in a rifle.v

Referring to the drawings, our improved clip is formed of three separateelements I, 2 and 3 allfashioned of thin sheet steel or any otherAsuitable metal. An elongated channel member vI (see Figure 4) is formedby bending over the edges of a suitably shaped metal strilp to formguide flanges la for engaging the grooved or iianged ends of anumber-'of cartridges in the usual manner, as is well known in this art.A spring strip 2 is retained within vthis channel member and isrestrained against longitudinal movement by two pressed-out portions 2a(Figure 6). The function of strip 2 is to force the cartridge flangesagainst guide anges Ia. The two ends of strip 2 are cut down to formnarrow tongues 4 and 4a which are turned up as shown when the clip isfull of cartridges, to retain same. The structure so far described iswell known in this art.

In order to make it possible to load a clip of -cartridges directly intoa free magazine (i. e., a

magazine removed from its firearm) we provide a slidablemagazine-engaging portion 3, bent over as shown at 5 to slidably retainsame on the channel I and enlarged at its free end and turned in at theside edges thereof, as shown at 6 to engage channels 'I on the sides ofa magazine 8. These channels 'I are normally provided to guide themagazine into its operating position in the rearm With which it is used.

The sliding feature of the magazine engaging portion is provided inorder to facilitate shipsping and packing of the clip, either loaded orunloaded, and particularly for transporting loaded clips in containers.It will be readily apparent that if the magazine engaging part were notslidable as shown a. great deal of shipping space would be wasted. Thisis of course an important factor in military logistics.

The slidable member 3 is retained from sliding further back thannecessary, when telescoped as shown in Figure 3, by stops shown in theform of two small bosses 9 as punched out of the channel member I at theproper point to engage member 3 in its rearward sliding motion when theminimum overall length is reached. When the clip is extended as shown inFigure 1, member 3 is prevented from coming off by tongues I 0, as bestseen in Figures 1 and 3.

At the opposite end of our clip from the slidable member 3 are two tipsIl for engaging a suitable recess cn a rifle as shown at ll (Figure 8)for positioning the loaded clip in correct alignment with the emptymagazine 8 when in the rifle, so that by a downward pressure of the handon the row of cartridges the hook 4a will be bent out of the way and thecartridges forced into the magazine in correct order for immediate use.

For loading magazines prior to insertion into the rifle, themagazine-engaging member 3 is slid forward to its extreme position onthe clip and is clipped on to the empty magazine as shown in Figures 1and 2. The cartridges can then be stripped into the magazine by downwardpressure on the top cartridge with suicient force to bend back hook 4and force the cartridges into the magazine. In the type of rifle shownthe loaded magazine can be inserted into the rifle with a single motionand be for immediate use.

It will thus be seen that We have provided a dual-purpose clip capableof loading the magazine either on or off the Weapon with which themagazine is used, and one which is collapsible to a mini-mum length forthe purpose stated.

We claim:

1. A cartrid-ge transferring device comprising a clip having means forholding a plurality of cartridges in a row by spring-engagement with thebase flanges thereof, and slidable magazineengaging means on said clipextensible beyond the end of the said clip for engagement with acartridge magazine, whereby a clip-held row of cartridges may bemanually fed directly into an engaged magazine.

2. A cartridge-transferring device comprising a cartridge clip forholding a row of cartridges, a member slidable on said clip from aposition substantially coextensive with part of said clip into anextended position beyond one end of said clip for engaging a freecartridge magazine when said member is extended, and firearm engagingtips on the other end of said clip for retaining said transferringdevice in cartridge-feeding relationship with the magazine of a rearm.

3. A cartridge transferring device comprising a clip having means forholding a plurality of cartridges in a row by spring-engagement with thebase anges thereof, a magazine-engaging member slidable Aalong said cliplongitudinally thereof from a position substantially co-extensive withat least a portion of the length thereof into an extended positionwherein one end of said magazine-engaging member extends beyond one endof said clip whereby a clip-held row of cartridges may be manually feddirectly into an engaged magazine.

ROBERT S. BARKER. ERNE L. BALLINGER. EDWARD C. FLETCHER. ELI GEORGECOOPER. PARLEY F. LAMBERT.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the le ofthis patent:

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